Bengaluru
Accusing the state government of indulging in politics at a time when the farmers are in dire straits due to the severe drought, former Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai warned that any government that fails to give justice to farmers would not last long.
Talking to media persons on Tuesday after submitting a memorandum to the Governor Thawar Chand Gehlot seeking his direction to the state government to give suitable compensation to farmers in the wake of severe drought, he said any government which would come to the rescue of people during drought or floods is considered as a living government or not doing anything would be deemed as a dead government. The Congress Party had requested the Government of India to release Rs 18,000 crore as drought relief but the state government had released just Rs 105 crore which was not even one per cent of the relief amount sought from Central Government. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, before the Belagavi session, had promised to give a compensation of Rs 2,000 per hectare but that amount has not been released yet under the garb of linking Aadhar number of farmers. The linking of Aadhar had been done during the previous BJP regime in the FRUITS Software.
Our government had transferred the relief money directly to the bank account of 14 lakh farmers, Bommai said.
